Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Oh," said the Bishop of Carlisle, " how constantly and how cheerfully and manfully he worked! How he made his influence or rather the influence of Christ felt through the mighty city of Manchester and the whole country round! How men who know hetter than most what work means wondered at him, who seemed to work harder than all and to be never weary, always ready for every effort of intellect, every call of charity, every ecclesiastical or evangelical duty!" Preaching in 1882 at the public opening of the new buildings of Shrewsbury School, where he had once been himself a pupil, he said—and the utterance is evidently a page of autobiography unfolding the secret motives of his untiring industry, even from the days of boyhood : " This never was a school for idlers. In my day it was almost Spartan in the fewness of its comforts, the hardness of its discipline. I do not know that it was any the worse preparation for after-life on that account. If we lacked culture in its modern idea, wo did not lack earnestness, industry, and a praiseworthy amhition ourselves to contribute something to the reputation of the school. I remember how those honour-boards in the head-master's old room stirred our young hearts with the hope that some day our names too might be enrolled there. How we counted up the distinctions won at the university by some Kennedy or Hillyard, and wondered whether we should ever be able to rival those brilliant careers. And I remember well the boys who were the salt of the school in my time, who made us ashamed of telling a lie or practising a deceit, of being a coward, of meanness of any and every kind. I know what I myself owe, in the way of influence and example, to those boys of stronger and better natures than my own. Arnold's great principle of governing his scho... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.